Curtis Upton
Curtis Upton | |
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| Known for | Agricultural radionics and the UKACO device |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Radionics |
Curtis Upton (Curtis P. Upton) was an American engineer and inventor best known as a pioneer of agricultural radionics and a co-founder of the firm UKACO in the late 1940s. He is listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
Work
Upton, together with William J. Knuth and Howard Armstrong, formed UKACO, which promoted a method of treating crops for pests using apparatus derived from the radionic instruments of Albert Abrams. In the reported technique a photograph of a field was used as a "witness" and placed with a sample of the agent to be applied on a metal plate wired to the device, which practitioners claimed could act on the distant crops. Upton's activity is documented in histories of radionics as continuing through the 1950s and 1960s, extending from single plants to whole fields treated via aerial photographs.
Later proponents of torsion-field and "new energy" concepts have retrospectively cited experiments of this kind — in which the treatment of a photograph is said to transmit an influence to a remote object — as early examples of their ideas. These claims lie outside mainstream physics and biology, which do not recognize radionics or photograph-mediated action at a distance as valid mechanisms.